The Great Gazoo

The Great Gazoo is a character from The Flintstones animated series. He has many similarities to Mr. Mxyzptlk of the Superman comics, and may have been inspired by him. He is a tiny, green, floating alien, voiced by Harvey Korman, having been exiled to Earth from his home planet Zatox as punishment for having invented a weapon of immense destructive power, and was discovered by Fred and Barney when his flying saucer crashed. File links The following pages link to this file: The Great Gazoo ... File links The following pages link to this file: The Great Gazoo ... The Flintstones, an American animated series created by Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, is one of the most successful animated television series of all time, originally running in American prime time for six seasons, from 1960 to 1966, on the ABC network. ... An animated series or cartoon series is a television series produced by means of animation. ... Mr. ... Superman, aka Man of Steel, is a fictional character and superhero who first appeared in Action Comics #1 in 1938, and for several decades has been one of the most popular and well-known comic book icons of all-time. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... Harvey Herschel Kormen (b. ... UFO redirects here. ...

Gazoo often appears before Fred and Barney in random, often inopportune moments. He refers to Fred as "dum-dum" and constantly causes problems for him. Even when he attempts to help Fred out, he usually ends up causing even more trouble. The only people who are able to see him are Fred, Barney, and the children (because they believe in him). A running gag is that Fred argues with Gazoo while Wilma believes that he's talking to himself. Also, whenever Pebbles says Gazoo Wilma thinks she is sneezing, possibly catching cold. Fred Flintstone Frederick Flintstone (usually called Fred) is a fictional character who originated in the popular television animated series The Flintstones. ... Barney Rubble, a fictional character in the popular television animated series The Flintstones, is the diminutive blonde-haired caveman husband of Betty Rubble and adoptive father of Bamm-Bamm Rubble. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Betty Rubble and Wilma Flintstone. ...

Because Gazoo was introduced into the show midway through the final season and is considered quite an absurd character, being a futuristic alien that appears in the middle of the Stone Age, he is often cited by fans and critics of the show as being an example of the fact that the show had "jumped the shark." Indeed, the show was cancelled shortly after his first appearance, although it cannot be said that Gazoo contributed in any way to the series' conclusion. Stone Age fishing hook. ... The infamous moment when Fonzie jumps over a shark while on water skis. ...

The story arc regarding Gazoo's trying to return home was never resolved due to the cancellation of the original series, and the character did not appear (nor was he referred to) in the immediate series follow-up The Man Called Flintstone or any of the later spin-off TV series or animated movies, rendering him effectively dropped from continuity. (Since this was due in part to the original series being cancelled, Gazoo does not quite qualify for Chuck Cunningham syndrome). Apart from the original TV series, he appeared in a Fruity Pebbles cereal commercial as part of a promotion for a contest where consumers would have to try and find boxes of all-orange cereal pieces, and more recently has become the mascot for Marshmallow Mania Pebbles cereal. He also had a part in the second live-action movie, The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, where he was played by Alan Cumming. Charlton Comics also published a short-lived comic book focusing on the character in the mid-1970s. In episodic storytelling media such as television, comic books and comic strips a story arc is an extended or continuing storyline. ... The Man Called Flintstone is an American animated musical motion picture produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and released in 1966 by Columbia Pictures. ... Chuck Cunningham syndrome refers to when an important character in a television series is removed with little or no explanation. ... Fruity Pebbles is one of the Bedrock-themed breakfast cereals produced by Post Cereals, which feature characters from The Flintstones. ... Cereal crops are mostly grasses cultivated for their edible seeds (actually a fruit called a caryopsis). ... A television commercial (often called an advert in the United Kingdom) is a form of advertising in which goods, services, organizations, ideas, etc. ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed. ... The Flintstones is a 1994 Universal Studios live-action movie based on the animated television series The Flintstones. ... Alan Cumming. ... Charlton Comics was a American comic book publishing house that existed from 1946 to 1986, based in Derby, Connecticut. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ...

References in other stories

• One episode of The Simpsons ("The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase"), featured a little green alien character, Ozmodiar, a clear parody of The Great Gazoo, especially as he is used in the context of the show jumping the shark. Ozmodiar actually appears in a later episode, "HOMЯ."

• An episode of Family Guy directly referred to Gazoo as well.

• Butch Hartman, creator of The Fairly OddParents, has stated that Gazoo was an influence on the appearance of his show's title characters, Cosmo and Wanda. They even float up and down like Gazoo.

• In Paul Robinson's book In the matter of: Instrument of God, the main character 246 refers to The Great Gazoo as the most evil character ever created, because he was sent to earth as punishment for creating a doomsday machine, and because he's cute rather than menacing (obvious evil is easy to spot and not as dangerous; insidious or hidden evil is much worse).

• In an episode of the animated series Undergrads, Rocko, while drunk on alcohol, inadvertantly mistakes the character Mump as the Great Gazoo.

• In the episode of Space Ghost: Coast to Coast entitled "Pavement", the Great Gazoo makes a cameo - only long enough to be introduced, say the catchphrase "Toodle-loo, dumb-dumbs!" and disappear.

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See Also

• Jumping The Shark